Economics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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One might presumptuously suppose that a book entitled Economics: A Very Short Introduction encompasses a concise introduction to the field of economics. Malah, penulis telah membawa pembaca yang sebenarnya tidak ada latarbelakang ekonomi langsung kepada teori ekonomi yang sukar. As in, that stuff that happened a long, long time ago, but there is no modern history because we now have the science of (liberal) economics and political "independence"/ "democracy"!

Throughout, he highlights the relevance of economics to everyday life, providing a very human exploration of a technical subject. I must confess that I have trouble seeing where the objections in some of the other reviews come from. Secondly, and this goes in conjunction with the first point, is that it is generally a difficult read for what the title alludes to.As an 'introduction', this book is an extremely heavy read for anyone not already intimately familiar with economics (and even then, it would probably still be a tough book to get through). I am now reading Global Economic History also from the Very Short Introductions series and I highly recommend both. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. Of course, one should ask why it is that the Europeans managed to colonize the tropics; why colonization didn’t take place the other way round. Meanwhile, this book's author bypasses this Western history, and it could not save him from liberalism's global shadow anyways: Classical liberals (many being ivory tower intellectuals of the British empire) were predictably biased with imperialism, so imagine using their ideology to address America vs.

The abysmal quality of this book reflects poorly not just on the author but on this series as a whole. Dasgupta introduces the reader to two fictitious girls, , Becky, 10, who lives with her parents in the American Midwest and Desta, 10, who lives with her family in a village in tropical southwest Ethiopia. Going from the machinery to the applications and back again to refine what he's set up obviously makes a great deal of sense and gives Dasgupta more mileage to handle the social issues he delves into, particularly in the last two chapters (since, after all, economics is a social science that requires models to align with an informed view of human affairs). He corresponds to the hindrances facing them; and the approaches that shape their lives, their families, and their fortunes.He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions. This then goes on to analyze the productivity of institutions (smells like Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty).